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0. F. SPENCER.

GHANDELIER.

No. 245,264. Patented Aug. 2 1881.

N. PETERS. Phulo-Lilhograplmn Washinglun. D. c.

UNTTED STATES i ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES I SPENCER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY S. BALLOU, OF SAME PLACE.

CHANDELIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 245,264, dated August 2, 1881.

Application filed December 30, 1880. (No model.)

. To all whom it may concern are suspended from the ceiling loosely by a hook. This is objectionable for the reason that the chandelier swings or vibrates, especially when pressure is applied on one side in handling the fixture, or when one lamp is removed, thereby bringing an excess of weight on one side.

It is the object of my invention to obviate this difficulty by providing means whereby the hanger may be attached stiif and fast to the ceiling, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A shows the ordinary hanger or shaft which depends from the ceiling, and to which the lights are attached; and B represents the cap or center piece at the top of the hanger. a is the eye attached to the hanger 5 and b is the hook attached to the ceiling, the eye engaging with the hook and sustaining the parts.

In Fig.1 a shank, c, is shown, forming a part of the eye, said shank having a thread, (I, and extending down through the solid top of the hanger, which forms a nut. At the bottom of the shank is a stop,f.

the screw, and in this condition the hanger is perfectly stiff and fast, and cannot swing or vibrate when the hand is applied to it, and it will not move out of the vertical position when there is more weight on one side than on the other, which is a source of trouble in ordinary hanging chandeliers.

To disengage or detach the chandelier from its fastening, the cap or center piece is simply turned down on the screw till the eye can be lifted from the hook.

It has been common to use afixed screw on top of the hanger and screw it into the ceiling. It is almost impossible to drive it in straight, and it is frequently deflected, and sometimes broken, by striking knots or nails, in which case the chandelier stands sidewise, or cannot be sustained. 6 5

In this invention the joint of the hook and eye allows free movement, and the square top of the cap or center piece will always bring the hanger in the true vertical position when said cap strikes the ceiling.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a chandelier or drop-light fixture suspended by a hook and eye, the combination, with-the hanger and cap-piece, of a screw or screw-thread, whereby the cap-piece can be forced up against the ceiling to stiffen the hanger after the hook and eye have been connected.

2. In a chandelier'or drop-light fixture, the combination, with the hanger and cap-piece, of a screw shank, c, passing down into or through the hanger and allowing'the hanger to be tightened to'the ceiling by moving up upon the screw shank, as herein shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. CHAS. F. SPENCER.

Witnesses R. F. Oseoon,

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